I'm fairly new to collecting retro computing, mostly concentrating on retro PC gear but I do grab anything Macintosh if it comes along which is an extremely rare occurrence in my country. A seller put up a non-working Macintosh Colour Classic on a local auction site with a starting price of 170eur, it didn't sell. It was clear from the photos that something had leaked out of the case, I thought it was the caps initially and contacted the seller stating this and offering him 60eur, after he took out the logic board and sent me photos of the disaster, he countered with 70eur and here I am wondering if I am sane to buy something knowing full well it is broken and probably unfixable...
So I'm sharing my pain with everyone, for history's sake...
The case...
The logic board...
On top of that of course the caps have leaked...
The analog board looks fine except for one leakage located right around the centre of it...
I'm not holding much hope as I don't have the skills to attempt to fix this on my own, most I could maybe get by doing is changing the caps, and poorly. Would probably make more sense to get another logic board but they are expensive and unavailable locally, ordering from abroad is even more expensive thanks to customs charges.
For now I'm going to start with giving the logic board a bath and scrub using the usual formula: white vinegar (I actually have some ethanol based 9% vinegar hope thats fine) -> baking soda -> distilled water -> 95%+ IPA in order to assess the damage and then go from there...
So I'm sharing my pain with everyone, for history's sake...
The case...
The logic board...
On top of that of course the caps have leaked...
The analog board looks fine except for one leakage located right around the centre of it...
I'm not holding much hope as I don't have the skills to attempt to fix this on my own, most I could maybe get by doing is changing the caps, and poorly. Would probably make more sense to get another logic board but they are expensive and unavailable locally, ordering from abroad is even more expensive thanks to customs charges.
For now I'm going to start with giving the logic board a bath and scrub using the usual formula: white vinegar (I actually have some ethanol based 9% vinegar hope thats fine) -> baking soda -> distilled water -> 95%+ IPA in order to assess the damage and then go from there...